CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Travel?

$13.8M across 13,660 payments, July 3, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 3,404 purchase orders and 218 vendors, run by Police.

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 3,404 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$13.8MTotal spent
3,404Purchase orders
218Vendors
23%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$1.7M
FY2018-19
$1.8M
FY2019-20
$1.6M
FY2020-21
$253K
FY2021-22
$905K
FY2022-23
$1.6M
FY2023-24
$1.8M
FY2024-25
$2.1M
FY2025-26
$1.6M
FY2026-27 *
$379K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $153K.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 218 vendors on this line.

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 3,404 purchase orders booked to this line.

30 payments · July 13, 2018 to April 9, 2020

23 payments · August 10, 2017 to April 9, 2020

23 payments · August 16, 2022 to August 15, 2023

30 payments · July 11, 2024 to August 20, 2025

21 payments · July 18, 2019 to September 10, 2020

22 payments · July 11, 2023 to July 29, 2024

32 payments · August 20, 2025 to August 17, 2026

28 payments · July 11, 2024 to August 20, 2025

25 payments · August 10, 2017 to July 13, 2018

34 payments · August 20, 2025 to August 17, 2026

19 payments · August 13, 2021 to August 16, 2022

26 payments · July 13, 2018 to July 15, 2019

57 payments · July 26, 2024 to August 15, 2025

20 payments · July 11, 2023 to July 26, 2024

19 payments · July 18, 2019 to July 10, 2020

20 payments · August 16, 2022 to July 17, 2023

69 payments · August 14, 2023 to September 6, 2024

81 payments · July 13, 2018 to March 4, 2020

53 payments · August 11, 2022 to August 31, 2023

16 payments · August 13, 2021 to July 15, 2022

73 payments · July 13, 2021 to September 2, 2022

18 payments · July 10, 2020 to July 13, 2021

70 payments · July 13, 2017 to August 6, 2018

55 payments · August 12, 2019 to May 21, 2020

17 payments · July 10, 2020 to July 13, 2021

113 payments · July 21, 2026 to September 4, 2026

41 payments · August 12, 2025 to March 20, 2026

59 payments · August 9, 2019 to January 31, 2020

20 payments · January 5, 2023 to July 24, 2023

51 payments · August 18, 2022 to November 1, 2022

18 payments · January 28, 2025 to December 30, 2025

52 payments · August 15, 2023 to July 11, 2024

15 payments · September 19, 2024 to May 6, 2025

51 payments · August 16, 2022 to February 7, 2024

24 payments · December 23, 2024 to August 20, 2025

10 payments · August 23, 2019 to November 15, 2019

24 payments · November 14, 2022 to January 13, 2023

36 payments · August 9, 2023 to October 25, 2023

18 payments · August 31, 2023 to November 2, 2023

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.